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The Epigraphy Division of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has begun the process of digitising each the Tamil estampages successful its collection.
The task includes scanning the estampages, providing descriptive metadata for the inscriptions, and uploading them to a dedicated online repository for casual access.
K. Munirathnam Reddy, Director (Epigraphy), ASI, Mysuru, said the Epigraphy part of the ASI had already started digitising estampages of inscriptions successful respective Indian languages, arsenic good arsenic those successful Arabic and Persian, successful its possession. This includes adjacent to 25,000 Tamil inscriptions.
Recently, portion responding to a question by DMK Rajya Sabha Member N.R. Elango, Union Minister for Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said retired of 24,806 Tamil estampages possessed by the ASI, scanning had been completed for 13,740 estampages.
Mr. Reddy said these inscriptions had already appeared successful the ASI’s Annual Report connected Indian Epigraphy.
The digitisation workout is being carried retired nether the Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (BharatSHRI), a integer epigraphy depository inaugural aimed astatine creating a dedicated integer repository of each recorded inscriptions, to guarantee casual entree for scholars and the public.
The process includes scanning estampages and preparing descriptive metadata. This volition transportation details of each inscription — including its location, the king and dynasty associated with it, the connection and script, the play to which it belongs — and the transcript of the inscription, on with a description. The integer repository is expected to spell unrecorded successful 2 months.
The users from immoderate distant country would beryllium capable to entree the integer repository to cognize the details astir the inscriptions, Mr. Reddy added.
